Machine for cutting and assembling match-splints.



No. 773,394. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. D. HUTGH INSON & M. T. WESTON.MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND ASSEMBLING MATCH SPLINTS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13, 1896. RENEWED DEC. 31. 1897.

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No. 773,394. PATENTED OCT. 25, 1904. D. HUTCHINSON & M. T. WESTON.

MACHINE IOR CUTTING AND ASSEMBLING MATCH SPLINTS.

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1). HUTGHINSON & M. T. WESTON. MACHINE FOR OUTTIN G AND 'ASSBMBLINGMATCH SPLINTS.

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UNITED STATES DANIEL HUTOHINSON, OF PASSAIO,

Patented October 25, 1904.

NEW JERSEY, AND MILTON T. VVES- TON, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y,, ASSIGNORS TO-THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OFILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING AND ASSEMBLING MATCH-SPLINTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 773,394, dated October25,1904.

Application filed June 1 3, 1896. Renewed December 31, 1897. Serial No.665,258. (No model.)

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Be it known thatwe, DANIEL HUTOHINSON, of Passaic, in the countyofPassaic and State of New Jersey, and MILTON T, WESTON, of N ewYork, inthe county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Machines for Cutting and AssemblingMatch-Splints, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Our invention relates to improvements in splint cutting and assemblingmachines; and the object of our invention is to improve this style ofmachinery and produce a machine which is comparatively. simple instructure and which will receive a long sheet of veneer, split the sheetinto strips the width of which corresponds to the length of amatch-splint, cut the several strips into match-splints, and finallycoil or assemble the splints in a series of 'coils in condition to bedipped in the several compositions usual to match-making processes.

To these ends our inventionconsists of certain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine embodying our invention. Fig. 2is broken side elevation of the machine. Fig. 3 is a diagrammaticsection on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, the view showing the working parts,but with the frame and subordinate pieces left out. Fig. 4 is a brokendetail sectional view illustrating the mechanism for working theejectors which discharge the severed splints from between the knives ofthe cutter-head. Fig. 5 is a detail front elevation, partly incross-section, showing the manner in which the veneer is fed to themachine and the mechanism for feeding the veneer and splitting it intostrips. Fig. 6 is a detail longitudinal section of the clutch used instarting and stopping the coiling mechanism of the machine; and Fig. 7is a broken plan view, partly in section, of the said clutch.

The machine h'asa suitable frame 10, which, as illustrated, is made upof-a number of separable parts; but they are all designated by the onenumeral lO, as they may be made in one-part, if preferred. Journaled onthe machine isa cutter-head 11, which is carried by a shaft 12, this, asillustrated, being driven by a pulley 13, although other means may beused for driving it. The cutter-head has radial knives. 1'4, whichtravel in close proximity to the cutting edgeof the stationary knife 15..(See Fig. 3.) Each knife 15 is fastened to a cutter-bar16, supported onthe main frame. The veneer 17 is fed through a guide 18 and betweenguide-rolls 19 and presses against the cutter-headbetween the knives 14,which carry itv downward against the edge of the knife 15, and so everytime a knife 1a passes the knife -15 a splint is cut, as shown clearlyin Fig. 3. This is an old method of cutting and needs no furtherdescription.

The rolls 19 are timed so as to feed the veneer at the right speed, and,as illustrated, they are driven bythe gears 20, 21, and 22, (see Fig;1,) which connect the shafts of the feed-rolls with the main shaft 12.Alternating rolls above and below the meeting-point aresplit, as shownat 19, to provide for the adjusting-screws 23, which are arranged aboveand below the upper and lower feed-rolls to enable them to be properlyadjusted in a common and well-known manner by their tension on theshafts of the feed-rolls, and the ends,

of the rolls 19 are formed into circular knives 24L, the edges of whichare in slightly different planes and are adapted to overlap a verylittle when the veneer is pressed between the feedrolls, so that when asheet17 is fed into the machine it will be out into a series of strips,the width of each strip corresponding to the length of the roll 19 andalso to the length of a match-splint. The feed-rolls 19 19 and knives 24are preferably covered by a hood 25, (see Figs. 1 and 5,) which servesas a guard and also guides the veneer 17 Between each pair of knives 14are ejectors comprising the lips 26 and rods 27, the rods extendinglongitudinally across the cutter.- head or drum 11 and the lips beingplaced at right angles to the rods, so that as the splints 17 are cutfrom the veneer they will lie opposite the lips. The rods projectthrough flanges 11 at the ends of the cutter-head 11 and terminate incranks 28, which are held by springs 29 so as to normally press the lips26 against the face of the cutter-head; butat a certsin point, which, asillustrated, is oppo site the lower side of the cutter-head, the crankstouch the fixed abutment 30, which is fastened to the frame 10 and whichtilts the cranks 28 and lips 26 so that the latter throw outward andeject the splints 17. This tilting takes place, as shown in Fig. 3, atthe lower edge of a guide 31, which extends from the knife 15 to a pointbeneath the cutterhead, and the splints are pushed along on this guideby the knives 14. It will be seen that the ejectors not only throw outeach series of Splints, but that they lie upon the splints after theyare cut and prevent the splints from jumping out of place.

As the splints are ejected they lie upon belts 32, there being a beltbeneath each row of splints, and the splints are held. the rightdistance apart and prevented from twisting by the projections 33 on thechains 34, the chains travelinghorizontall y beneath the cutter-head andbeing arranged parallel with each other and running on sprocket-wheels35. Each belt 32 is guided'to its place on the chain 34 by the guide andfeed rolls 36 and 37, the latter being pressed to place and serving as abelt-tightener, as it is journaled in arms 37, (see Fig. 2,) which aresecured to a shaft 37", which is journaled on the frame 10 and iscounterbalanced by the weight 37. The roll 36 is driven by gears 38 and39, connecting with the shaft of one of the sprocket-wheels 35, andthese may be driven in any convenient way, although it has not beenthought necessary to show any gearing for driving them, as the drivingmechanism forms no part of the invention.

The several belts 32'are drawn from coils 40, which are carried on ashaft 40, journaled detachably on the main frame 10, and as the beltsare unwound from the coils 40 they are wound into coils 41, (see Fig.3,) which are wound on the shaft 42 in the usual manner. The shaft 42 isdriven by a pulley 43, which is turned by a belt 44, connecting with apulley 45 on the shaft 46, and the latter shaft is driven by a belt 47,also connecting with the pulley 45 and with a pulley 48 on the mainshaft 12. The shaft 42 is journaled on arms 49, which arecounterbalanced by the weights 50 and are hung on the shaft 46. Thisprovides for the increasing size of the coils 41, and the coil as itgrows larger depresses the arms 49 against the tension of the weight 50,this being caused by the pressure of the coil on the presserroll above.The shaft 40 needs to be started and stopped with the beginning andending of a coil or coils 41, and to this end it is provided with aclutch 51, (see Figs. 1, 6, and 7,) which is of the usual kind, butwhich will be briefly described to make the drawings plain. The twoparts of the shaft 42 are provided with meeting teeth 51, and themovable part, which has the drivingpulley 43, is provided with a loosecollar'52, which is moved by the handle 53, working in the earn-slot 54of the bearing of the shaft, and thus by moving the handle the shaft maybe thrown in or out of gear in the usual way.

The presser-roll 55, above the shaft 42, is hung in a swinging frame 56,which can be turned up out of the way when the shaft 42 is to beremoved, and this frame 56 is hung on a rod 57 and at its lower edge isfastened by a hook 58 or equivalent fastening.

At the lower edge of the frame and next the frame 10 is a roll 59, whichis directly above the rear ends of the chains 34, (see Fig. 3,) and thisroll serves as a tension-roll for the tapes 60, which are unwound fromcoils 61 on the shaft 62 and are fed beneath the tension-rolls 59 andwhich are coiled up on the coils 41, the tapes lying over thematclrsplints 17, so as to bind the latter in place, this arrangementbeing common to splint-coiling machines. The shaft 62 is hung detachablyon the frame 10, and the tension of the coils 61 is further preserved bythe springs 64, which are secured to the rods 57 and press against thecoils 61.

It will be observed that when a sheet of veneer 17 is fed to the machineand the belts 32 and tapes adjusted and the shaft 42' started that thesheet will be divided by the knives 24 into a series of strips, whichwill be cut by the knives 14 and 15 into a series of splints 17", whichwill be delivered by the ejectors upon the belts 32 and wound into coils41 in the manner just described, so that by a comparatively simpleprocess a broad sheet of veneer is automatically cut into splints andthe latter are assembled into coils ready to be dipped.

lVe are aware that it is not new to cut match-splints from a block orfrom veneer and assemble the splints in a coil or package by the samemachine, also that it is not new to assemble the splints in coils orpackages and then sever the assembled splints; but we are not aware thata machine has ever been used to cut and deliver amultiple series ofmatclrsplints to independent coiling devices whereby a relatively largenumber of coils are simultaneously produced, and it is this featurewhich forms the gist of our invention and which we broadly claim.

parallel longitudinal knives and ejectors ex tendinglengthwise of andbetween the knives, each ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axisof the cutter head whereby rows of splints are cut by and dischargedfrom said head, and a series of independent belts adapted to receive andcarry off said splints, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a cutter-head having I parallel longitudinalknives and ejectors ex-' tending lengthwise of and between the knives,each'ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axis of the cutter headwhereby rows of splints are cut by and discharged from said head, and aseries of independent belts adapted to receive and carry off saidsplints, together with means for rolling said belts into coils,substantially as described.

et. The combination of a cutter-head having parallel longitudinal knivesof a length to cut a row of splints from sheet material and having alsoejectors extending lengthwise of and between the knives, each ejectortilting on an axis parallel to the axis of the cutter-head, cutters forsevering the stock into splint lengths before it reaches said knives,and means to receive and carry off said splints, substantially asdescribed.

5. The combination of a cutter-head having a series of parallellongitudinal knives of a length to cut a row of splints from sheetmaterial and having also ejectors extending lengthwise of and betweenthe knives, each ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axis of thecutter-head, cutters for severing the stock into splint lengths beforeit reaches said 1 knives, a series of belts to which splints cut by theknives are delivered, adapted each to receive splints crosswise of thesame, and guiding devices to hold the splints on their respective belts,substantially as described.

6. The combination of a cutter-head having a series of parallellongitudinal knives of a length to cut a row of splints from sheetmaterial and having also ejectors extending lengthwise of and betweenthe knives, each ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axis of thecutter-head, cutters for severing the stock into splint lengths beforeit reaches said knives, a series of belts to which splints cut by theknives are delivered, adapted each to receive splints crosswise of thesame, and guiding devices to hold the splints on their respective belts.together with means for rolling the said belts into coils, substantiallyas described.

7. The combination of a cutter-head having parallel longitudinal knivesand ejectors extendinglengthwise of the cutter-head between the knives,each ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axis of the cutter-head,substantially as described.

8. The combination with a cutter-head having radial kniveslongitudinally thereof, of the ejectors extending longitudinally betweenthe knives and arranged to eject the several series of splints from thecutter-head, each ejector tilting on an axis parallel to the axis of thecutter-head, substantially as described.

9. The combination with a cutter-head having radial longitudinal knives,of the ejectors hung on longitudinal pivots between the knives andadapted to throw out the several series of splints, and means, as thecranks of the ejectors and-the abutment opposite the cranks, to tilt theejectors, substantially as described.

DANIEL HUTOHINSON. MILTON T. WESTON. Witnesses:

W. B. HUTOHINSON, BERTHA DEYO.

